Key parliamentary panels, which is able to embrace the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), headed by Congress’ Okay C Venugopal, have been constituted. Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP’s) Sanjay Jaiswal shall be heading the Committee on Estimates, whereas his occasion colleague Baijayant Panda will chair the Committee on Public Undertakings.
Key monetary committees of Parliament embrace the Public Accounts Committee, Committee on Public Undertakings (CoPU), and Committee on Estimates. These committees are tasked with holding a watch on the federal government’s accounts and the functioning of public undertakings.
On Friday, the Lok Sabha Secretariat issued a bulletin and introduced the structure of parliamentary committees. The three committees have a tenure of 1 yr and have members from each Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. They’re elected by the 2 homes. Moreover, there are different department-related standing committees that regulate varied Union ministries and departments.
The bulletin said that the Committees on the Welfare of Different Backward Courses in addition to for the Welfare of SCs and STs have additionally been constituted. Whereas the Committee on Welfare of OBCs is headed by Ganesh Singh of the saffron occasion, his colleague Faggan Singh Kulaste heads the Committee on Welfare of SCs and STs.
Within the PAC, a complete of twenty-two MPs – 15 from Lok Sabha and 7 from Rajya Sabha – have been elected unopposed. Of the 15 Lok Sabha MPs, seven are from BJP, three from Congress and one every from Trinamool Congress, DMK, Samajwadi Celebration, Jana Sena and TDP. The place of the chairman of the multi-party panel is historically given to the principle Opposition occasion.
Venugopal, who was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in 2020, received the 2024 Lok Sabha election from Alappuzha. Aside from being the overall secretary (organisation) for Congress, he has additionally served as minister of state within the first UPA authorities. Presently, he’s additionally serving as deputy whip for the Congress within the Decrease Home.